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A major Turkish bank has partnered with an emissions trading platform in the country to help provide access to the burgeoning voluntary carbon market.

Waverley Abbey’s 500-year-old ‘living legend’ wins contest, as experts seek greater protection for ancient trees

A gnarled yew whose twisted trunk has been growing for more than half a millennium has been crowned tree of the year.

The roots of the yew snake around the ruins of Waverley Abbey in Surrey, which was the first monastery founded in Britain by the Cistercian religious order in 1128.

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A new rule requiring all national emissions trading scheme participants in Hebei to measure and report the carbon content in their coal on a weekly basis is almost impossible to comply with due to a lack of auditors and increases the chances of data falsification, according to sources.

Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin tries the interactivist climate action virtual masterpiece

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Fifteen finalists are up for the £1m award given to innovators tackling the planet's problems.

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Judge says VicForests’ actions posed ‘a threat of serious and irreversible harm’ to greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders

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Victoria’s state logging company has failed to protect threatened species of gliders, and its methods to check for them before logging are inadequate, the state’s supreme court has found.

Justice Melinda Richards ordered VicForests on Friday to carry out full surveys of areas for greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders before logging, and to include buffers around habitats.

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The Callide coal-fired power station in Queensland has been forced offline following a series of malfunctions at the 57-year-old facility.

The post “Structural failure” takes Callide coal plant offline 18 months after dramatic explosion appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A new wind energy generation record for the UK, as offshore and onshore wind farms contribute more than 20GW to the grid at one point this week.

The post New renewables record as UK wind generation blows past 20GW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The UK ETS Authority will proceed with legislating to introduce new legal obligations to publish compliance and other scheme data, it announced late Thursday, while shelving plans to release regular reports on permit holdings.

Journalist apologises for ‘unintentional’ lifting of material from political analysis written by Josh Bavas and is revealed to have copied Queensland parliament factsheet. Plus: Quillette charges US$150 for New Orleans social

In an opinion piece in March, the Courier-Mail columnist Peter Gleeson – who apologised this week for plagiarising another journalist’s work – filled 62% of his article with copy from a Queensland parliament factsheet.

In his Gleeso Confidential column, the former editor of the Sunday Mail used hundreds of words from the official document without quotation marks, Weekly Beast can reveal.

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Stunning new peaks for instantaneous share in the country's two biggest grids, and an insight into what a near 100% wind and solar share looks like over a whole week.

The post The stunning wind and solar leaps in Australia’s most advanced renewable grids appeared first on RenewEconomy.

WA switches on Project Symphony, a VPP harnessing customer resources from rooftop solar and battery storage to hot water systems and electric vehicles.

The post WA “orchestrates” hundreds of home solar and storage assets, as coal shortage continues appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Saudi Arabia will roll out a line of electric vehicles in 2025  in partnership with BMW and Taiwan’s Foxconn to “ignite a new domestic industry and ecosystem."

The post Saudi Arabia to start making EVs to help break away from oil’s economic dominance appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia will need to walk the talk at COP27. That means moving rapidly away from coal and gas, and helping developing nations manage climate impacts.

The post This is what Australia needs to bring to Egypt for COP27 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW declares the third of its planned five renewable energy zones as it accelerates plans to deal with shift from coal over coming decade.

The post NSW formally declares its third renewable zone as shift from coal accelerates appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Along with my neighbours, I’ll find out today whether the Murrumbidgee River will inundate our homes

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Pictures flood my phone of waters serenely enveloping the plain that surrounds my village in north Wagga Wagga. Along with about 300 neighbours, I’ll find out today whether the Murrumbidgee River will inundate our homes.

But as residents watch the rising flood waters, we face an unsettling quiet. The point of no return has already been passed and the river will have its way: our homes, situated within a ring levee in the middle of a New South Wales Riverina region flood plain, are already cut off.

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The summit in Egypt could be the world's best hope of progress on the climate issue, says Justin Rowlatt.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices traded through a volatile week alongside Scoping Plan enthusiasm and broader market sentiment, while RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices continued a steady trek higher to levels not seen since the end of August.

The European Commission is launching the third call for large-scale projects under the EU ETS-funded Innovation Fund, confirming an earlier intention for the call to be at €3 billion.